In my #blog
Getting out of #fascism: what history tells the US
https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/08/how-does-the-us-extract-itself-from-fascism/#USA #politics
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"No wealthy democracy with nuclear weapons has ever fallen to fascism. The 1930s examples everyone cites were broken countries. Weimar Germany was weakened by World War I and hyperinflation. Italy was barely industrialized. Spain was largely agrarian. They didn’t have the world’s reserve currency. They didn’t have thousands of nukes. They didn’t have surveillance technology that would make the Stasi weep with envy."
#ChrisArmitage, 2025
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"America has all of that. Plus a population where 30–40% genuinely wants authoritarian rule as long as it hurts the 'right people'. The historical playbook is useless here. We’re in unprecedented territory.
But that also means the old rules about what’s possible might not apply."
#ChrisArmitage, 2025
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